| "Education
is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers
and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated
and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training
as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.
But no true education can leave out the moral and spiritual dimensions of
human life and human striving. Only education that addresses this dimension
can lead to that blend of compassion, humility, and understanding that is
summed up in one word: Wisdom." - Ronald Reagan
"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God." - Dr. Martin Luther King "America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." - Alexis de Toqueville "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next. The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced be some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." - Abraham Lincoln "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?" - Thomas Jefferson "It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own." - James Otis "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." - Thomas Jefferson "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." - Dr. Martin Luther King "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison "As a very small boy exploring the almost virgin woods of
the old Carver place, I had the impression someone had just been there
ahead of me. Things were so orderly, so clean, so harmoniously beautiful.
A few years later in this same woods I was to understand the meaning of
this boyish impression. I was practically overwhelmed with the sense of
some Great Presence. Not only had someone been there. Someone was there....
Years later when I read in the Scriptures, 'In Him we live and move and
have our being,' I knew what the writer meant. Never since have I been
without this consciousness of the Creator speaking to me.... The out of
doors has been to me more and more a great cathedral in which God could
be continuously spoken to and heard from.... Man, who needed a purpose,
a mission, to keep him alive, had one. He could be...God's co-worker...."
- George Washington Carver |